[syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, a.
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or
observation.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, n.
1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a
trite or customary remark; a platitude.
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2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or
referred to.
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Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our
fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by
way of commonplace. --Swift.
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Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of
things to be remembered.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. t.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general
heads. --Felton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. i.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
commonplace
adj 1: completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now
become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
2: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous
job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum,
prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous]
3: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
"hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare
jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor
`hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed,
old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn,
tired, trite, well-worn]
n 1: a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche,
banality, commonplace, bromide]